Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
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As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.
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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
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I write for whoever needs to read it.
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Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.
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Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.
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Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.
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By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.
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If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
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I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.
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When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.
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My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.